Two La Roux posts in quick succession I know, but every time I listen to 'Quicksand', I keep hearing the lyircs to Prince's 'When Doves Cry' in my head alongside it, and just wondered if I was alone...?...

In anticipation of any potential 'La Roux vs Prince' remixes to emerge I of course reserve the rights to the creation of the idea... ;)

where the depth of your ignorance leaves you ashamed

Charlie Brooker's latest television offering comes in the form of the genius that is Newswipe. Exposing how ridiculous the news has become in his usual sarcastic manner the best bits of the first episode are when he demonstrates how we are shamed into keeping up with current events and how every insignificant event is now tied to the ‘credit crunch’. Here’s a taster but I fully recommend you download it on i-Player.

funny blog

she's mental

I kinda love her... ;)

http://french-graffiti.blogspot.com/

two hearts with accurate devotions

I saw La Roux a couple of weeks ago at our union’s indie night. They were one of the very few decent bands to play there (not many bands are prepared to play an event which costs £4 a ticket) and I thought they were absolutely amazing. I love Elly Jackson’s look, it’s quite androgynous and very reminiscent of Annie Lennox in her Eurhythmics days (before she took the weight of the world’s problems upon her own shoulders and became the female version of Bono). Recently I’ve become obsessed with ‘In for the Kill’ and particularly Annie Mac’s ‘mash-up edit -- as it’s called on YouTube. It’s essentially just a sped up version of the remix by Skream but I think its faster tempo helps to encapsulate the sense of urgency in the song. However, it’s definitely Jackson’s haunting voice that makes the song. It almost sounds like she sang it in a vacuum, physical impossibilities aside.